6-letter words that end in n
- aldrin — a brown to white poisonous crystalline solid, more than 95 per cent of which consists of the compound C12H8Cl6, which is used as an insecticide. Melting pt: 105°C
- aleman — Mateo (maˈteo). 1547–?1614, Spanish novelist, author of the picaresque novel Guzmán de Alfarache (1599)
- alevin — a young fish, esp a young salmon or trout
- alexin — complement (def 10).
- alfven — Hannes Olaf Gösta (ˈhannɛs ˈuːlaf ˈjøsta). 1908–95, Swedish physicist, noted for his research on magnetohydrodynamics; shared the Nobel prize for physics in 1970
- algren — Nelson. 1909–81, US novelist. His novels, mostly set in Chicago, include Never Come Morning (1942) and The Man with the Golden Arm (1949)
- alison — a feminine name
- all in — If you say that you are all in, you mean that you are extremely tired.
- all on — the cry uttered by a whipper-in to signify that all the hounds are accounted for.
- all-in — Wrestling. without restrictions; with virtually every type of hold permitted.
- almain — a German
- alpeen — a cudgel
- alston — a male given name.
- altern — alternate
- altman — Robert. US film director, 1925–2006; his films include M*A*S*H (1970), Nashville (1975), Short Cuts (1994), and Gosford Park (2001)
- altran — (language) A Fortran extension for rational algebra developed by W.S. Brown of Bell Labs ca. 1968.
- alyson — a female given name, form of Alice.
- amadan — fool1 .
- amazon — In Greek mythology, the Amazons were a tribe of women who were very good at fighting.
- amidin — the soluble matter found in starch
- amnion — the innermost of two membranes enclosing an embryonic reptile, bird, or mammal
- amtman — a magistrate or bailiff in parts of Europe
- amtran — Automatic Mathematical TRANslation
- amylin — (carbohydrate) The dextrin of starch.
- amyrin — (organic compound) Either of two isomeric triterpenoids found in some vegetable oils and resins.
- andean — of, relating to, or resembling the Andes
- andron — a son of Anius who was given the power of prophecy by Apollo.
- anilin — aniline
- annwfn — the other world; the land of fairies.
- anshan — a city in NE China, in Liaoning province. Pop: 1 459 000 (2005 est)
- antron — a strong, shiny, silklike nylon fiber made into clothing, carpet, upholstery fabric, etc.
- anuran — any of the vertebrates of the order Anura (or Salientia), characterized by absence of a tail and very long hind legs specialized for hopping: class Amphibia (amphibians). The group includes the frogs and toads
- apeman — any of various extinct apelike primates thought to have been the forerunners, or closely related to the forerunners, of modern man
- apemen — Plural form of apeman.
- araban — a pentosan, found chiefly in vegetable gums, that yields arabinose upon hydrolysis.
- arabin — the essence of gum arabic, being a carbohydrate gum composed of hexoses and D-arabinose
- aragon — an autonomous region of NE Spain: independent kingdom from the 11th century until 1479, when it was united with Castile to form modern Spain. Pop: 1 059 600 (2003 est). Area: 47 609 sq km (18 382 sq miles)
- archon — (in ancient Athens) one of the nine chief magistrates
- arcmin — 1⁄60 of a degree of an angle
- arcsin — arcsine: the function the value of which for a given argument between –1 and 1 is the angle in radians (between –π/2 and π/2), the sine of which is that argument: the inverse of the sine function
- arctan — arctangent: the function the value of which for a given argument is the angle in radians (between –π/2 and π/2) the tangent of which is that argument: the inverse of the tangent function
- arghan — any of various plants of the genus Agave and of the family Agavaceae, which are native to tropical America and have tall flower stalks rising from a massive, often armed, rosette of thick fleshy leaves
- arisen — to get up from sitting, lying, or kneeling; rise: He arose from his chair when she entered the room.
- arleen — a female given name.
- arshin — a Russian unit of length equal to 28 inches (71 cm).
- ascian — a person who lives in the area between the tropics
- ashbin — Ashcan.
- ashcan — a large can for ashes and trash
- ashman — dustman
- ashton — Catherine. Baroness. born 1956, British Labour politician; High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy for the European Union (2009–2014)